Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds 1st Edition Ambereen Dadabhoy 9781003213581

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• ISBN 13: 9781003213581
• Author: Ambereen Dadabhoy

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare’s canon. While many of Shakespeare’s plays were set in the Mediterranean, a geography occupied by Muslim empires and cultures, his work eschews direct engagement with the religion and its people. This erasure is striking given the popularity of this topic in the plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries.

By exploring the limited ways in which Shakespeare uses Islamic and Muslim tropes and topoi, Ambereen Dadabhoy argues that Islam and Muslim cultures function as an alternate or shadow text in his works, ranging from his staged Mediterranean plays to his histories and comedies. By consigning the diverse cultures of the Islamic regimes that occupied and populated the early modern Mediterranean, Shakespeare constructs a Europe and Mediterranean freed from the presence of non-white, non-European, and non-Christian Others, which belied the reality of the world in which he lived.

Table of contents:

Introduction: Where are all my Muslims at or Shakespearean Erasures

Chapter 1: The Muslims Are Coming: The Tempest’s Brave Old Worlds

Chapter 2: Menace to Society: Turning to the “Turk” in Shakespeare’s History Plays

Chapter 3: The Moor You Know: Shakespeare’s Nation of Islam

Chapter 4: Turkish Delight: Twelfth Night’s Harem Life

Conclusion: “What is’t to me?” or Muslim Worlds through Shakespeare

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